{"id":239247,"date":"2026-06-18T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/space-renaissance-international-at-copuos-69-vienna-10"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:02:32","slug":"space-renaissance-international-at-copuos-69-vienna-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/space-renaissance-international-at-copuos-69-vienna-10","title":{"rendered":"Space Renaissance International at COPUOS 69, Vienna, 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KxunbMOecaM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(SRI) was represented at the 69th Session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) in Vienna, Austria, by Bernard Foing, Dr. G\u00fclin Dede, Werner Grandl, and Enes Be\u015fli. The SRI delegation contributed to the session\u2019s dialogue through two technical presentations: one delivered by Werner Grandl, <em>\u201cThe Legacy of Gerard K. O\u2019Neill and the Urgency to Start Experimentation on Simulated Gravity,\u201d<\/em> and another by Dr. G\u00fclin Dede titled <em>\u201cSustainability Beyond Earth: The Case for an 18th Sustainable Development Goal.\u201d <\/em>Throughout the session, the delegation engaged in productive discussions with international stakeholders and explored potential avenues for collaboration in support of SRI\u2019s vision for a sustainable and inclusive space future. The delegation also attended the side event <em>\u201cDelivering Water Diplomacy through Space,\u201d<\/em> jointly co-organised by the European Space Policy Institute and Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>SRI further observed the <em>\u201cSpace4Industry, UNOOSA\/UNIDO Signing Ceremony,\u201d<\/em> co-organised by UNOOSA and UNIDO, as well as the \u201c<em>Space4Resilience Initiative, From Data to Decision: AI-Driven 3D Digital Twin Technologies for Disaster Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainable Industrial Development,\u201d<\/em> co-organized by UN-SPIDER and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>SRI supports the utilization of space technologies in addressing global challenges, advancing sustainable industry, and strengthening international cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SRI) was represented at the 69th Session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) in Vienna, Austria, by Bernard Foing, Dr. G\u00fclin Dede, Werner Grandl, and Enes Be\u015fli. The SRI delegation contributed to the session\u2019s dialogue through two technical presentations: one delivered by Werner Grandl, \u201cThe Legacy of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}